Tag: First Watch

A Band of 7 warriors (and one pup) spent 45 minutes in the Prison Yard. This is what (vaguely) transpired.

COP – handful of the usual suspects

Four Corners – or really two corners, squared with a 1/2 run around the parking lot each time

Bear Crawl between spaces and 1 Merkin x 26 Parking Spaces (DTH pointed out it was essentially just a Polar Bears through the parking lot)

2 laps around the parking lot

Jump Squats x 5 x 26 spaces

1 lap around Parking Lot

50 WWII’s OYO

Run Lap?

100 LBC’s

1 Burpee per parking spot x 26 spots

3 Sprints to pay homage to Last Calls’ Q to finish up.

Announcements:

• Bone Thugs VQ next Thursday, August 13th at The Forge
• Puppy Pile sometime soon?
• Bone Thugs 10k at RAMM on Friday, August 21st (Bone Thugs launches at 0500 and everyone else will launch at 0515)
• was there something else?

Prayer requests:

• Doozy, as he gets over his Kidney Stone
• Florence’s In-Laws battling lung cancer
• Upchucks MIL with Lung Cancer as well

NMS:

Its no secret that Handshake doesn’t Q often. But YHC was challenged by the regular First Watchers to lead a Q, so YHC obliged. YHC called this the Butterfly workout because there was just enough rhythm to assume what was coming next, but without truly knowing. Staying in the small parking lot was only slightly claustrophobic. It was good to see some different faces, and with the addition of Cooper this may have broken the First Watch attendance record.

5 toned studs arrived at River and Ridge before the sun this morning to see what an SOJ immigrant could bring for his AO VQ. Here is the story of how it went from those that were smart enough to remember.

COP at the church included quick round of arm circles and cherry pickers. Warm enough, lets grind?

THE THANG: Mosey back to the parking lot for a bit of 4 corners with a twist: 25 American Hammers (2 count), 50 Merkins, 75 Mountain Climbers, 100 Jump Squats. Bear Crawls on the short end to get those shoulders nice a buff.

Mosey over to the triangle at Ridge and Westham for a Super Dora. 100 WWII’s, 200 Ball Dippers, 300 Alabama Prom Dates, 400 Carolina Drydocks. Timer runs up to the traffic light at Ridge and back.

Still time on the clock, Lets go back to the Church for an SOJ staple with a Doozy Mankiller classic.

PAX still had energy to burn so mosey back to the parking lot for some sprints. All out 60 yard sprint to get our combine times on point. Walk back to the line and lets go again.

MBTTF with a Merkin Ring of Fire until sun comes up.

Numberama, Namearama, Announcement, YHC took us out.

Announcements: Honeydo pulling the double header today with Hill Run tonight followed by beverages of choice. Respect to Kubota’s M for retiring from Hanover Schools after 16 years leading the classroom. Thoughts and prayers to those on the front lines.

NMS: It was an honor joining these great men today in a bit of ground and pound. Mumble chatter with a short COP to dive right into the grind. PAX flew thru the Super Dora much quicker than expected with mumble chatter about shoulders so YHC decided to work the calves with the Mankillers. PAX seemed to crush everything that was thrown at them with style and grace. Sprints seemed to be highlight the youth in the ranks with experienced veterans bringing up the rear.

Seems Kubota was a meteorologist in a former life and mentioned something about the comet sighting at dusk last night. Not sure if it is fact or fiction, as no one else was aware of its existence. Maybe a Russian satellite or Elon Musks’ latest rocket to Mars.

A fearless five emerged from the fartsack for First Watch. Somehow the rainstorm last night made things even more humid but we fought on:

COP: Invisible Jump ropes, Don Qs, Russian Soldiers, Merkins, LBCs (no time for Scorpion kicks)

11s: HRMs and Box Jumps. 50 Reverse Crunches. Run length of front of church between. Lunge alleyway to back entrance:

Dora 123: 100 Burpees, 200 LBCs, 300 Monkey Humpers. Mosey to other entrace: 20 Derkins, Bear Crawl then run rest of lot & LBCs. Crab Walk back. Mosey back to front of church for few min of Mary: Freddy Mercurys, Flutterkics, Heels2Heaven. Back to flag.

Announcements: Hill Run & HH next Wednesday 7/29 at YHCs place, see slack for info. Capital Trail CSAUP is coming but nobody knows any details…

NMS: Truly the dog days of summer, PAX was drenched in sweat in the COP. We had a perfect 4 PAX at 4:59 until Handshake rolled in to give YHC a prime number PAX.

Hardest part about the 11s to start was the bog part of the field right next to the bricks. Several PAX got stuck in this Swamp of Sadness but nobody was overcome by the sadness and sank in like Artax from the Neverending Story did.

The veteran PAX of First Watch is always game for a challenge but there was a hint of mutiny in the air when the 100 burpees were called. Luckily we got started and knocked them out. Worse than burpees are high volume Monkey Jumpers then having to run. Hutton did remark Monkey Humpers are harder when not done in Saab’s driveway.

Good to see Last Call knows how to find the AO and he is now a regular, especially impressive as he has to cross the James to get to the AO while other Tuckahoe vets who live a 7-iron golf shot away from the AO stay in the fartsack.

Four Horsemen entered the squared circle at First Watch.  Here’s what happened.

Mosey down River Rd to the UR Intramural Field, pit stop to tell Saab hello.

• SSHs
• Russian Soldiers
• Hairy Rockettes
• Jazzercises
• Reverse Crunches
• Hand Release Merkins

Dora (P1 Exercise/ P2 Bear Crawl up hill to fence and run back)

• 100 2ct Mountain Climbers
• 200 Suzanne Somers
• 300 SSHs

Mosey over to long-jump area

Quadruple Check

• Dips
• Step Ups
• LBCs
• Run to giant Pack’n’Play and back

Mosey around to the hill behind the fields on Crenshaw

11s – Merkins/ Jump Squats (Bernie up between sets)

Mosey up Crenshaw to College to Club Vista to Westham and back to flag

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Good to have some company this morning, though thoughts of a “solo Q” crossed YHC’s mind when First Watch Captain Kubota let YHC know he wouldn’t be able to make it this week. 

Things YHC learned this morning:

• Honeydo chooses his car in the morning based on which one of the four actually starts. 
• Handshake can hyper-extend his knees 3 or 4 times and keep on plugging away. 
• Splinter must have known we’d find the tall grass and possibly some ticks this morning, so he made sure to shave his….

ANNOUNCEMENTS

None of record

A pack of six mosey’d over to the grassy triangle for COP. Helicopter, Don Quixote, Imperial Walkers, SSH, and Scorpion Kicks were the exercise du jour. At one point I thought I saw eyes looking up at me and decided against foreboding copperhead squats.

Down Westham Station for “Side Street Lindsays”. At every intersection, we perform a set. Exercises were Box Cutters and Carolina Dry Docks.

At the flats by the canal, we partnered up for some Dora. Run a tenth of a mile down and back while your partner does 100 merkins, 200 monkey jumpers, and 300 flutter kicks.

Hang a left on old bridge heading up hill. Partner 1 runs the hill to the first intersection and back to partner 2. Partner 2 performs walking lunges, broad jump burpees, and bunny hops.

We had so much fun we did it again as we turned on Highland, but this time with bear crawls and reverse lunges. Hutton has a true bear crawl gift as he made it to the top had a beer, took a nap, and woke to greet us when we arrived.

Long mosey up the hill and along River. Stop for some Mary in Saab’s driveway (APD, right oblique crunches, left oblique crunches).

Back to the AO where YHC took us out.

This year is roughly halfway done and its been a crazy one so far. How are you going to get the most out of the second half?

Lockjaw

3 First Watch regulars found a lost FW newbie to make it 4 for a beautifully cool summer morning beatdown. We did:

COP of 3: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, LBC. Start mosey to church main lot (find Last Call on the way) and start of with a Lindsay of: Hand Release Merkins & V-Ups.

Dora 123: 100 Mtn Climbers, 200 American Hammers, & 300 SSH. Over to side wall for 3 rounds of: 30 Donkey Kicks, lunge across then 20 Jump Squats. Back to Kettlebells. 2 rounds of: Swings, Sit-n-Press, Cleans, 4th runs the lot loop. Finish up with 2 min of mary: APDs, Freddy Mercurys, Reverse Crunch. Announcements & YHC took us out.

NMS: Lighter numbers at First Watch this morning but no real rain to bother us PAX. During the COP we saw a SUV circle the lot a few times but not on the other side of River lot where we normally park. Luckily we were able to track down Last Call and promptly dropped a Lindsay with 100 HRMs on him right away. Prayers for Kubota who is getting a puppy this weekend.

Announcements: HR-HDHH at Kubota’s next Wednesday. 3rd F next Tuesday, check Slack for details. 4th of July Convergence at No Toll 6:00 am.

Six early birds gathered in the random parking lot on River for today’s iteration of First Watch. Pleasantries were exchanged then off we went to begin the melting process. Quick mosey to the triangle for COP that included:

COP
20x SSH
10x Don Quixote’s (complete with spine adjustments on #1)
20x LBCs
10x Merkins
15x Imperial Walkers

The Thang
Mosey to Cameron Road for mailbox bingo. Run down Cameron and do 3 burpees for every mailbox we pass on the left and 5 jump squats for those we pass on the right. Stop at the bottom of the hill.

Triple up for triple check. Shoulder tap merkins (audibled to just shoulder taps after round 1), freddie mercuries, third person runs up the hill to the 4th driveway.

Continue up Cameron until the end repeating the burpee/jump squat combo from earlier.

Turn down Ross and do 10 flutter kicks for mailboxes on the left and 5 merkins for mailboxes on the right. Audible to alternating mailboxes half way down.

Work our way back up Ross by partnering up. Partner 1 does lunges while partner two runs partway up the hill and back. Switch and repeat.

Second round with bear crawls and running. Joyous.

Mosey back to the flag where we complete a round of ring of fire.

Numbers, names, lots of fellowship then YHC took us out.

Moleskin
YHC won’t lie. There were times today where that sucked. Humidity and heat was kind of brutal. Sometimes YHC thought that running was better and other times exercises. In the end, they both sucked. Plenty of sweat prints left on the road this morning.

Conversation revolved around events of last evening and the comical rules of local pools opening.

Nice day for a cotton shirt Handshake. Enjoy the day gentlemen.

Splinter

Three First Watch newbies and two veterans hit the mean streets of River Road this morning in the very early gloom. After Hardywood and BT worked their way around the back of the church trying to find the correct parking lot, it was time to roll.

Mosey to the front of the church for:

COP (early ’80s edition):

Deadman Hang Regular, left leg over right leg, right leg over left leg

Helicopters

Don Quixotes

Russian Soldiers

Jazzercises

Suzanne Somers’ both sides (a Hardywood favorite)

Freddie Mercury’s

Mosey down River Road and make a stop at Saab’s driveway.

Face away from house and complete 20 Monkey Humpers

Mosey down River Road some more until the little bat cave entrance to the UR Football practice field.

Examine the beautiful turf and set cones up for:

Doracides – Deconstructed Burpee Edition

Partner up and complete:

100 Hands on ground kick feet back (1st third of a Burpee)

200 Merkins

300 Jump Squats

Runner runs to first cone and performs 1 Burpee runs back to baseline, then runs to second cone and performs 2 Burpees then runs back to baseline, then runs to third cone and performs 3 Burpees and runs back to baseline, then switch with partner.

Hand Q over to EF Hutton. EF Hutton stares at the 7 man football sled and makes a comment like “I really want to use that sled for something” but instead heads over to the field hockey goals. Grab a field hockey goal and complete a Pull-Up/Monkey Humper Jack Webb. 1 Pull-up/4 Monkey Humpers 2/8 3/12 4/16……10/40

10 minutes left, time to head back up River Road.

Stop at Saab’s house for 15 Alabama Prom Dates in cadence. Admire the sweat angels in Saab’s driveway.

Head back to the Shovel Flag and circle up for:

Burpee Ring of Fire (like we haven’t done enough Burpees yet.) Each pax call out 1, 2 or 3 Burpees without repeats.

LBC’s x 20

6 inches or 60 inches, whichever you prefer for 30 seconds.

Time up!

Numberama, Namearama, Announcements, and YHC took us out!

Announcements:

EF Hutton’s Father’s surgery went well though he has a long road to recovery. Please pray for him.

Shakedown’s surgery went well and he is now in recovery/rehab stage. Please pray that he heals up correctly and is back out with us soon.

Hardywood and DTH are leading the July 4th Convergence on July 4, 2020 at Brown’s Island/Tredegar. 6am this year. It’s too damn hot at 7am!

Offshore is leading the 3rd F Bible Study on Tuesday, June 9 at 8pm on Zoom.

NMS:

It was great to see some new faces at First Watch this morning. Swirly was his usual early self parking at 4:30 so he and YHC got to catch up for a few minutes. Hardywood and BT had trouble finding the correct parking lot even though YHC texted very good directions to them yesterday.

This First Watch workout is now called “The Crabtree” YHC wanted to name it “The Saabski” but Swirly informed me that is the offical name of the Spider Run route that was run yesterday. Maybe one day, Saab will step out of his house and run the 1/4 mile to the AO and join us 🙂

Plenty of Burpees and Pull-ups this morning and the Pax crushed them. Well done all! Hardywood and EF Hutton left at 6am to head over to WDOG where Hardywood was the Q and both were after an early Wednesday morning Double-Dip!

Have a great day all and SYITG!

Kubota